Protocol

amending the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Maldives on certain aspects of air services

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES,

of the other part,

(hereinafter referred to as the Parties),

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Maldives, signed on 13 August 1996 in Male,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Maldives on certain aspects of air services, signed in Brussels on 21 September 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the horizontal agreement),

CONSIDERING the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria to the European Union and therefore to the Community on 1 January 2007,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following indent shall be inserted in Annex I, point (a) of the horizontal agreement after the entry concerning Austria:

- "- Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Government of the Republic of Maldives concerning air services, done at Male on 13 August 2006, hereinafter referred to as the "Maldives-Bulgaria Agreement" in Annex II;".

Article 2

The following indents shall be inserted in Annex II to the horizontal agreement after the entry concerning the "Maldives-Austria Agreement":

(a) at point (a) "Designation by a Member State":

- "- Article 3(1), of the Maldives-Bulgaria Agreement;";

(b) at point (b) "Refusal, revocation, suspension or limitation of authorisations or permissions":

- "- Article 4(1)(a) of the Maldives-Bulgaria Agreement;";

(c) at point (d) "Taxation of aviation fuel":

- "- Article 7 of the Maldives-Bulgaria Agreement;";

(d) at point (e) "Tariffs for carriage within the European Community":

- "- Article 9 of the Maldives-Bulgaria Agreement;".

Article 3

This Protocol shall enter into force when the Parties have notified each other in writing that their respective internal procedures necessary for its entry into force have been completed.

Article 4

This Protocol shall be drawn up in the Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Maldivian Dhivehi languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

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